Melies Encore: 26 Rare and Wonderful Films by the First Wizard of Cinema
This is a list of films featured in the sequel to Flicker Alley's first collection of films by Melies. Also featured are 2 films by Melies' rival, Segundo de Chomon, which were once mistaken as the directors' work.
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- DirectorGeorges MélièsA soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJehanne d'AlcyJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsWith the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsSound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted desires?Genre: Trick Film (Color). (Note: The film on the disc entitled "An Hallucinated Alchemist" is only a shorter, colored print of "The Mysterious Retort", so instead of the misidentified title I've used the real one).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA woman's home is forcibly invaded by robbers, and a clumsy law enforcement officer tries to detain the thieves.Genre: Comedy
- DirectorGeorges MélièsAn incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated painting.Genre: Drama/Reenactment.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsUnder bombardment, five sailors load and fire a cannon on a naval ship, as their captain supervises.Genre: Drama/Reenactment.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsClowns ride in on a wagon drawn by a skeletal horse. The clowns proceed to transform from blackface performers to white costumed clowns, and back again, as they perform zany antics.Genre: Trick Film
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA human skeleton is placed upon a table by an attendant. When the attendant leaves the room the skeleton begins kicking his legs and throwing his arms about and suddenly turns into a magician. The magician produces an egg, performing several sleight-of-hand tricks, and places it upon the table with the small end downward. He then crudely draws a human face upon the shell, and the egg immediately begins growing larger and larger until it reaches the size of a normal head. The form of the egg fades away and there immediately appears the head of a very pretty girl. Then two or more of the same type appear on either side of the original. The heads of the girls are merged into one head and from this appears the hideous head of a hobgoblin. The hobgoblin fades away into the original egg. The egg is reduced to its normal size and is removed from the table by the magician, who swallows it. He then takes his place on the table, reverting back to the skeleton, which is removed by the attendant, thus closing the picture.Genre: Trick Film.
- A comprehensive view of Mt. Pelee before the bursting of the crater which buried the entire population of St. Pierre. Shows the quiet city and harbor in the foreground, with ships riding at anchor.Genre: Drama/Reenactment. (Note: I have used this title instead of the title for Melies' film because the film on the disc they call Melies is this film, not the true Melies feature, which is in color).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsAndré DeedGeorges MélièsRobinson Crusoe and Friday fight with hostile natives, and eventually retire to their jungle cottage to relax.Genre: Drama (Color).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsJules-Eugène LegrisGeorges MélièsA juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant. The servant brings a low table upon which the juggler throws some magic powder. The powder takes fire and blazes up into a large flame, in the midst of which appears a beautiful female. The flame dies away, the lady descends to show that she is alive. She mounts the table again. The juggler leaves the room. The servant falls in love with the lady and proposes marriage, but she fades from view. The juggler reenters and head over heals disappears from the top of the chair. The servant rushes toward the chair, juggler reappears coming out from under the table, seizes the servant and, throwing him to the floor, reduces him to smoke. He disposes of the chair in like manner and dances off.Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThree seconds of Méliès disguised as a millionaire smoking a cigar.Genre: Comedy (Fragment).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA series of disappearing acts as performed by a magician and his Spanish-garbed assistant.Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsBased on an early 13th century myth, this short film tells the story of a Jew who is forced to walk throughout eternity having refused water to Christ on his way to Calvary. He falls asleep and sees a vision of himself as a youth, when he refused the water Christ asked of him; he plods on and runs into Satan who beats him with his staff; he makes his way through a frightful storm. On and on he goes, forced to walk through time until the Second Coming.Genre: Drama (narration included).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsRachel GilletGeorges MélièsA family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.Genre: Drama (narration included).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA scientist pours water into a tub. Flames rise up, then the scientist takes out some dresses, which are draped upon statues. The statues change into a bevy of dancing girls who perform a dance routine.Genre: Dance (Color).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsWhen Ulysses of the Odyssey is trapped on the island of Calypso, he must fight Polyphemus, the giant monster that lives there.Genre: Drama.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAn inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.Genre: Fantasy (Color).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsTwo thieves, Robert Macaire and Bertrand, are eating at an outdoor restaurant, when they find themselves left alone. So, spying their chance, they make off with everything on the table. The waitress, discovering the theft, gives the alarm and four policemen begin following the thieves. Robert Macaire and Bertrand meanwhile rob a bank and steal several costumes to disguise themselves as tourists. They leave their clothes in a garden and embark onto a train, the police behind them. They get off at the station, and an attendant tells the police which way they when the police arrive. Entering a town, an earthquake hits and the thieves fly through the air. They land and the police are again on their trail. To hide themselves Macaire and Bertrand must disclose themselves in a barn. The police soon discover their abode and shoot the thieves down, but Robert Macaire and Bertrand get up and escape after the police turn their backs. And, jumping into a hot air balloon, they float away, making rude gestures to the officers of the law.Genre: Comedy (narration included)
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsManuelGeorges MélièsUndersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne's novel.Genre: Fantasy (Fragment, narration included).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsFernande AlbanyManuelAn obese cooks' lover succeeds in escaping the police after an incident involving her masters.Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsSatan uses of magical powers to cure his boredom while locked in a prison cell.Genre: Trick Film.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe scene opens with the jester being spurned by the king, who has evidently partaken of food which disagrees with him, and instead of being amused by the frolics of his jester he casts him away. All the wiles of the jester fail to raise a smile. The king petulantly throws himself into his chair of state. The jester, finding his jokes falling flat, performs acrobatic feats to no effect; juggling with balls, no result; the king won't be pleased. The jester then gathers chairs and builds them up and outward. Ah! The king is at last interested, wondering why they don't fall over, and gets down to see. The jester, taking a pair of bellows, blows the chairs and they fall in a heap at the king's feet. The jester next puts the chairs away and tickles the king, who kicks him for his frivolity; then, getting down from his chair to again kick the jester, kicks air, for the jester has vanished, quickly appearing again out of a large box and laughing at his master, who again seats himself with a frown. Finding all his efforts to please are not appreciated, the jester summons a lady to his aid. Now the king is all attention. Then taking three stools, the jester places them before the king, helps the lady to stand on the center one, pulls her dress, which falls to the ground, displaying her as a Grecian model. The king now forgets his indigestion and watches, the figure. The jester produces two staves, which he places under the outstretched hands of the model, then with a few passes hypnotizes his subject; he now takes the center stool from beneath the sleeping beauty, leaving her suspended on the two staves. After one or two more passes, he removes one of the staves, leaving the subject with only the support of the other, to the astonishment of the king, who is still more surprised when the beautiful model throws him a kiss. The jester now replaces the stool under the feet of the model, awakens her and helps her down. The king sits on the stool, takes the model in his arms and is about to kiss her, when to his intense disgust he finds himself embracing his jester, who, linking his arm in that of the king, leads him off.Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsDoctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.Genre: Comedy.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magician creates a butterfly woman and then a spider woman.Genre: Trick Film (Fragment, Color).
- DirectorGeorges MélièsA stain-glass window with a picture of a young maiden on it is used by Satan to torture an elderly alchemist, who ends up in Hell after a diabolical encounter with the devil himself.Genre: Trick Film/Drama (Tinted).
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónA magician performs a magic show involving women turning into bouquets of roses. Later the roses are festooned together in a fancy way to decorate the stage.Genre: Trick Film (Segundo de Chomon bonus with Color).
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónProving adept at every possible camera trick, Segundo de Chomón was brought by Charles Pathé to his studio at Vincennes, near Paris, to make trick films in imitation of Jules Verne (such as this one, inspired by A Trip to the Moon (1902)).Genre: Science-Fiction (Segundo de Chomon bonus with Tinting and Coloring).